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Here are eight selections (including five champagnes) to put real sparkle into your Christmas and New Year drinking.

Two great options for you today (both around £7). One is an unusual Portuguese white while the other is a well-known name but at a brilliant price.

Here are a handful of white wines that I believe will work brilliantly for Christmas and that are in line with the usual principle of seeking value for money from all over the world.

Today’s post builds on the concept of “House Wines at Home” and provides two good examples to head your list.

A new Lidl Wine Tour has just started, and today’s post picks out some of its stars that grabbed my attention.

While Christmas Day lunch – understandably – attracts most attention, you also need good value but less expensive wines for casual seasonal drinking. Here are a pair of good ones.

Here are 10 top red wines, from a range of countries, that will grace any Christmas lunch table.

Once again, Top Tips highlights a pair of wines that don’t shout “Buy Me” but discreetly offer brilliant value for money.

Christmas shopping starts here with my look at festive season sweet wines and fortified ones. More – many more – top Christmas choices to follow in future weeks.

Revivals are often good to see, and today’s post looks at two names that had faded from view but are now back – improved but still well-priced.  

In addition to the usual Sunday Best and Friday Treat recommendations, today’s post brings you up to speed with a People’s Choice Drinks Award innovation and tries its award winning wines.

Our quest for great value wine again takes us on the “road less travelled” – today it’s to Southern Spain and even to Moldova.

Competition is hotting up for your wine-purchasing Christmas pennies, so our usual promotions feature is expanded to cover a new range of deals Aldi has introduced for the ten-week run up to Christmas.

Today the spotlight goes on great value new world wines – one with a name you might (inadvisably) ignore and the other with a price you couldn’t.

It is the “road less travelled” for an Italian red and “Loire” sauvignon today – but coupled with a look at something much more familiar – the Supermarket wine scene.

Today’s post tries to look on the bright side of the current wine scene and introduces two equally bright wines that will help you do so.